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, but because of a system called The Electoral College, George Bush was given the White House. The Electoral College is a system of voting based upon population of individual states: each state is given a number of electors that is equal to the number of house…

. The college could also offer a General Education degree. The two-year degree would be for students who are not sure of what major to take. This would help to keep the General Education system going, while the major classes would become much more in depth…

In the United States today, we use the Electoral College to decide who is going to be the next president. The presidency is not necessarily won by popular vote. The founding fathers opted for the Electoral College, because they were afraid…

Rene Descartes The French mathematician Rene Descartes was born on 31 March 1596 in La Haye (now Descartes), Touraine, France. At the age of eight, he entered the Jesuit College at La Fleche where he developed a lasting interest in mathematics…

I often wonder why I am in college. I know that college will prepare me for the career I choose to pursue and make me that best that I can be in that field. But there should be other things that I could be learning aside from calculating probabilities…

The decision of attending university or college can be taken by our parents or by ourselves. Reasons for that are, however, quite different. I will present some of them, which I consider as the most important. The first of all causes for going to college…

Every Incoming College Freshman Should and Must Be Educated On and Vaccinated For Bacterial Meningitis Imagine a college student rising out of bed one Saturday morning suffering from what seems to be a headache. Unconcerned, this student begins…

In Noel J. Kent's article "The New Campus Racism: What's Going On?" he states that there is a lot more racism than there ever was on these college campuses. The percentage has increased since the 1980s. He states that one of the reasons why this happens…

My Transition into College My transition into college was into college was a big change for me. I went from living comfortably at home with my group of friends that I’ve made over many years to going to new place where I knew nobody…

Differences Abroad How many times have we found ourselves rushing to our professors' office doors and waiting by the mailbox to find out what kind of grades we have received? If you are like most American college students you will find that the answer…